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05/10/2011 12:24:15 PM · #1 |
| Is anyone using it as much as did 6-7 years ago or so? I think this one is dying as well... not "fast" enough and too many garbage! |
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05/10/2011 12:28:08 PM · #2 |
I use it heavily at work, but at home I use it more or less depending on who I am communicating with. Some people, like my daughter, don't frequently check it. Spam has certainly destroyed much of the value of email.
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05/10/2011 12:40:20 PM · #3 |
| i would have to disagree that it's dying. Just like snailmail, there are still many uses for it, and as yo spiff said, it will certainly never go away in the corporate world. |
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05/10/2011 12:55:07 PM · #4 |
I use email more than anything else. My vanity addresses are all piped into a single Gmail "partnerpage" or "domain". The spam filter is excellent. I've got years of the stuff hoarded saved.
Google Calendar is also very useful for family/work. The wife & I have our calendars shared, and also shared with other relatives.
I only used phone texting in an incidental way. If I REALLY need to get something done, I pick up the phone and talk to people and get it done then & there. That's the ultimate.
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05/10/2011 12:56:00 PM · #5 |
I think short messages sent via eMails now sent through the text messages into our phones... so, even we still use eMails, we probably use it less than 6-7 years ago... I am sure not many people are getting up middle of the night and checking their eMails anymore, rather, keep their phone under their pillows.
I think I had to add that this is true most for the newer generation... 20 and blow.
Message edited by author 2011-05-10 12:57:56. |
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05/10/2011 12:57:21 PM · #6 |
At work I get about 100 emails a day on average. I send about 20-30 back out. At home I get about 10 a day, but that's mainly from Newegg, Costco and Amazon. Gmail auto-sorts out the complete crap for me. I still use my home email as a main communication for family and long distance friends too though.
6-7 years ago I used it as much as I do now with the exception of work. I was just a peon then and didn't have email. |
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05/10/2011 12:58:21 PM · #7 |
I never would have predicted this, but text messages are replacing a significant number of important emails for me. And, I'm sending more images via text than ever before. If they'd make my iPhone screen a little bigger, but not as big as an IPad, I'd trade up right away. On the email front, gmail has a very helpful spam filter. And, gmail's priority inbox has helped me look at the important things first.
Visual voice mail is on the upswing for me, but I don't use a land line much anymore.
Message edited by author 2011-05-10 13:00:03. |
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05/10/2011 01:01:14 PM · #8 |
Work email is out of control but then that is reflecting reality (or their perverted version of it). For the most parts email is used to avoid/deflect a decision and a way to delay work.
Home - email is mostly financial stuff to say statements or bills are ready or spam (some from companies I do business with and most not). |
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05/10/2011 01:03:26 PM · #9 |
| I still use snail mail for personal letters and e-mail for quick messages. I don't use a mobile phone at all - I tried, but never got to grips with texting, it seemed such a nause to type out a message, and I used to make so many mistakes I gave up. |
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05/10/2011 01:09:19 PM · #10 |
I still don't have any idea how people key text messages that fast using the buttons small as ant's head... it is totaly impossible for me to do that without pressing other keys, and I don't have fat fingers.
If evolution is true, some thousands of years from now on, people will have very thin fingers, and maybe fingers up to 10 on each hand.
Other thing, we should have a SnailMail week each year, and send postcards to each other... postal services only, no ups or fed-ex kind |
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05/10/2011 01:11:28 PM · #11 |
| Text messaging is my favorite method of communication. For one thing, only people with my iPhone number can send me a text message. So, there is a natural high priority to those messages. My iPhone notifies me with sound and screen message that I've received a text message. It's my most direct method of communication. And, if I turn off the sound thing, it can be stealth communication.... receiving text messages when I am in a meeting, for example. Typing with both thumbs is the key on Apple's iPhone virtual keyboard. Once I mastered that, I was able to type messages almost as fast as keyboard typing. Well, one learns to be less verbose when texting. That's a good thing for speed communication, but it may mean the death of Proper Use of the English Language, as we used to know it. |
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05/10/2011 01:17:15 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
I still use snail mail for personal letters and e-mail for quick messages. I don't use a mobile phone at all - I tried, but never got to grips with texting, it seemed such a nause to type out a message, and I used to make so many mistakes I gave up. |
What kid of phone are you using? I hated text messaging with a regular phone pad and then I got a phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It's not bad now, though I still make some minor mistakes due to small keys and big fingers. I'd used some earlier RIM devices on the job as far back as '99, so I knew the thumb typing worked well.
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05/10/2011 01:26:32 PM · #13 |
I gather that I am in the complete stone ages. I don't have texting on my cell phone (neither do my kids), I still use my land line at home, I have a CRT monitor, I have a tube TV, with no DVR (if I want to tape something to watch - i still use a tape). It is a wonder I even have a digital camera I guess.
And to the topic started...I do use email quite a bit, both at work and at home....so maybe based on the above list, email is out of fashion!
Message edited by author 2011-05-10 13:39:52. |
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05/10/2011 01:34:47 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by bassbone:
I gather that I am in the complete stone ages. I don't have texting on my cell phone (neither do my kids), I still use my land line at home, I have a CRT monitor, I have a tube TV, with no DVR (if I want to tape something to watch - i still use a tape). It is a wonder I even have a digital camera I guess. |
Nope, long way off it.... No cell phone here :-) I usually give up and give them one of the 4 voip phone numbers otherwise they think I am avoiding giving them a cell#. The rest of your list... well... I have upgraded somewhat faster on those topics. |
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05/10/2011 01:45:11 PM · #15 |
We can do better than that: no TV (the last one - tube - died), no portable or cell phones or pods or pads. We have inherited a small sound system but it has too many features. Email works for us, but we have great spam filters and limited correspondence; the dangers of email are sufficient: communication can be a great time waster and interruption, as well as a delight. Just like digital photography.
For undisciplined Toads of Toad Hall like me, the self-limiting required is daunting. |
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05/10/2011 01:46:43 PM · #16 |
Hey, if your stuff gets the job done in the way you like/want...you are ahead of the game! I often think it would be far easier to chuck most of the techy crap we have and get back to a simpler life. They are just luxuries. :)
Originally posted by bassbone:
I gather that I am in the complete stone ages. I don't have texting on my cell phone (neither do my kids), I still use my land line at home, I have a CRT monitor, I have a tube TV, with no DVR (if I want to tape something to watch - i still use a tape). It is a wonder I even have a digital camera I guess.
And to the topic started...I do use email quite a bit, both at work and at home....so maybe based on the above list, email is out of fashion! |
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05/10/2011 02:02:46 PM · #17 |
| Believe it or not, i've never sent a text message in my life, my wife has a mobile for work but since we have no coverage at home i've never had one. The nearest house to us is a couple of hundred meters down the road and is sometimes rented out as a holiday home, i often see the guests walking about wearing perplexed expressions while holding there mobiles up in the air as if the world has come to an end because there is no signal, one of them even leaned over the garden wall and said he didn't know how i could live in such an isolated place, he didn't realize that to have such a need he must have felt far more lonely than i ever do. |
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05/10/2011 02:19:26 PM · #18 |
Email all the time. But, I've made changes in how I use email. I now use multiple email accounts. I use one strictly for friends. I use another for commercial email, cable, electric, etc.
When there are business I'm not entirely sure of, I'll create an email account specifically for that.
When there is something to sign up for that requires an email address to register (i.e. online gaming), I'll use a separate catch-all email that gets spammed like crazy. But, I don't receive email I care about there.
Call me crazy and neurotic....you will be right. |
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05/10/2011 02:33:23 PM · #19 |
I have two accounts:
One at yahoo that I use for anything potentially spammy, ie signing up for websites. I rarely check it anymore.
My gmail account I use mostly for sending files from either my computer or phone. But, for the most part I do most of my messaging through TXT or (for now) Facebook.
So, yeah, I don't use it nearly as much as I used too, also don't use Yahoo Messenger or AIM anymore.
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05/10/2011 02:41:10 PM · #20 |
As many have posted e-mail still is, and will continue to be, a corporate mainstay. There's no better way (today) to maintain a record of correspondence, and to communicate effectively to a team in an efficient manner.
Personal e-mail is another matter. 95% of the e-mail I receive on my personal account is commercial. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's stuff I signed up for, and in a fair fraction of cases, things I need to keep up with, e.g. banking, credit accounts, etc.
I don't see personal e-mail going away, but messaging (pick your flavor) is more immediate, and serves the purpose for those things that are purely conversational, and for which a record is unnecessary.
We've done a good job of knocking down most of the SPAM; I rarely receive a true SPAM message at work, and only occasionally do one or two get through at home. Now if we could just do the same with all the snail-mail SPAM!
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05/10/2011 02:53:02 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by FocusPoint:
... I am sure not many people are getting up middle of the night and checking their eMails anymore, rather, keep their phone under their pillows... |
If I'm in bed, I'm either getting it on, or sleeping. As long as both of our children are under our roof, the phone isn't answered at night. It doesn't even ring upstairs, so we probably won't hear it.
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